Adolescents who watch R-Rated movies are more likely to try alcohol at a young age, according to a study based on phone surveys of 6,255 10-14 year-old children. Published in Prevention Science, the…

The quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, depends on how authors collaborate, a study by University of Arizona researchers has found. The research,…

LONDON, March 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Hult International Business School has launched an innovative academic program in which qualified students can earn both Bachelor and Master degrees in just…

I really like this optical illusion made by Japanese artist Hajime Ouchi. It's just so simple - just black and white rectangles - and yet has the illusion of both movement and depth. Reminds me a…

Physicians have long recognized that pinpointing specific causes of disease in individual patients enables therapies that are the most likely to confer benefit with the fewest adverse effects. We…

This made me laugh today. I heart xkcd... Link to the xkcd page

Mother Earth Cycles To Work Anthropogenic global warming. AGW Human-caused warming. Call it what you will: is it real? In short: can humans modify Earth's climate? There are two major views on this…

EAST TAUNTON, Massachusetts, March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- OMNIlife science, Inc., is very pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with Societe d'Etudes…

TORONTO, March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a revised opinion in i4i v. Microsoft which affirms the August 11, 2009…

Bad habits of ineffective science: Trends in Biochemical Sciences has a piece on Mental inertia in the biological sciences. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but the piece does contain some…